The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-11-26
FLORTDA.
The health Of Plant City RENAL


The health of Plant City remains good.
! Anthony in the past four years has turned
| out seventeen school teachers.
A party of forty Ohioans are visiting now
at Melbourne, with the prospects of settling.
J. NJ. Simms, of Orange Hammock, ex
poets to have this year 800 gallons Of syrup.
The powerful pump for the Sanford
water works has arrived; also very large
boiler.
The Florida Railway and Navigation
Company will soon build new depot at
Plant City.
At Hawkinsville peach trees are in bloom.
The nights are quite cool, but there has been
no frost yet.
The Florida Southern Company is build
ing large warehouse at the pier at Punta
Gorda and will soon be prepared TO store
freights
Noah Townsend, of Hawthorne, expects to
have gathered 400 boxes Of oranges from
thirty six trees when he has finished picking
and packing.
The Orlando Record states that there
have been over sixty births, two-thirds OF
which were boys, in that city during the
past three months.
Z. T. C. Dickinson, of Greenwood, Fla,
has obtained verdict of 81, $50 against d.
w. Williams, for burning his gin house. In
the criminal prosecution some time before,
Williams got off free.
Mr. j. Lorillard, of New York, has de
cided to retain the steamer Indian River at
New York this winter. This is equivalent
to saying that he will abandon the steam
boat business in Florida.
At Anthony cool weather has prevailed
for the past week Ice "a of an inch thick
has been seen i'll several places No serious
n (lranpp
trees did not suffer at all.
The st. Marks river is wonderfully phos-
phorescent at night between st. Marks and
Port Leon. Boats seem as though they are
suspended over a molten mass, and those on
board can see the smallest fish in ten feet of
water.
Hawthorne has been having. boom in
weddings lately. William Hammond and
Miss earn were married last week, also Eli
Adkins and Miss Eldora Martin. Ben Coch-
ran and Miss Kitty Boone were married on
Sunday.
At Chattahoochee Rev. L. b. Wilson, pro-
prietor of the Advance, has secured "a nice
lot and is erecting pretty little Dwelling.
There are other improvements going on in
the way OF building and clearing lands for
planting tobacco next year.
The case of c. H. LETTER, charged with
assault with intent to kill, was tried at San
ford ON Wednesday in the County Criminal
Court. The jury brought in a verdict of
guilty of aggravated assault, and this morn
ing Judge Butt announced the sentence to
be fine of 500 and costs.
r. c. Peacock, who lives near Chatta-
hoochee, Fla, on the Georgia side, and who
conducted a boarding house at River juno
ton during the summer, has been incarcer-
ated in the cambridge Jail for neglecting
his family and paying too much attention
TO another woman. The woman is also in
Jail
w. W. Breese, of Orlando, has been elected
business manager of the Sanford Publishing
Company, vice E. w. Peabody, resigned.
DR.. Breese is editor of the Florida Alliance.
The Alliance will be published at Sanford.
Mr. Peabody will hereafter devote his entire
time and attention to the editorial depart
ment of the Argus
At Hawthorne all the orange growers are
speaking their Endorsement of p. p. Bishops
fight TO get the rates reduced ON oranges.
They say the idea of $i5 being charged per
car for hauling oranges, which are compare
lively easily handled, when lumber and
brick are hauled the same distance for Sl2,
does not look much like justice to the grow
ers and vegetable men.
At Hawkinsville Hickory one of the Dade
| boys North Carolina hounds, got on trail
| a few days since, near where the boys were
at work. After trailing it around some
| time he began TO bay. The BOYS went to
him and found he had an immense rattle
snake and the snake had a full-grown
rabbit half swallowed The snake was killed.
and found 10 be feet inches in length.
| The boys were uncertain whether the dog
was trailing the snake or the rabbit.
Although st. Augustine has increased
| within a twelve-month nearly 1000 souls,
yet the rate of mortality is so per cent less
| spending six months of last year. This
makes very good showing for tho health
| of the city, and proves the fact that the
removal of earth and the filling up of
marshes had no injurious effect, as was
feared by many. The physicians say that
there is much less fever this year than
| formerly and that St. Augustine, both
summer and winter, is remarkably healthy
city.
j. d. Easterlin, Superintendent of the
Bell Telephone Company, who has been at
| st. Augustine for several weeks past over
seeing the work Of putting in a telephone
exchange, left Wednesday for his home in
Charleston. Mr.. Easterlin feels highly
| gratified with the encouragement he has
received from the citizens and, in conse-
| quence of the much larger number of sub
scribers than he at first expected, has been
obliged to order a new key board at the
central station. Thirty-six telephones have
been put in, and nineteen more will be
placed in position within a few days. The
ch9nceS of "a wire between st, Augustine
and Jacksonville are now very good and
will nc doubt be built soon.
Tallahassee Tdil0hosseon: Four little
negroes, monkeying with gun on planta.
ton seven miles east OF the city few days
since, furnished work for our local physi-
clans, and came near giving work to
| Coroner. Two of the boys, George Pembe
and Anthony --, aged each about 10
years, had guns, and had laid them down
where they all stopped TO play. William
-, aged TO- and Monk Pemble, agei s
years, were frolicking with each other,
when William seized gun and said: II be-
lieve III shoot Monk" The older boys see
ing that he was going to do what he said,
| jumped at the gun. They saved Monk, but
each Of them lost hand, and Anthony re-
ceived several shots in the body.
NJ. Oppenheimer, President, and Messrs.
George and Henry Storm, directors of the
tobacco syndicate, are comfortably dolni-
ciled in special car at Quincy. Since
Monday they have, on horseback and in car
riages, been looking over their land pur-
chases. They are much pleased, and urge
further purchases of land To-day they
bought the Ray place, which reaches TO
within short distance of the African